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George K. Gittes, MD

Job Title Benjamin R. Fisher Chair of Pediatric Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief

Job Title Director, Pediatric Surgical Research

Job Title Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Division of Pediatric General & Thoracic Surgery

4401 Penn Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA 15224

412-692-7280 Phone

412-692-6069 Fax

Email george.gittes@chp.edu

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Active Research Projects

Education and Training

Medical School:	1987 Harvard Medical School
Residency:	1994 University of California, San Francisco, Calif.
Fellowship:	1996 Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Mo. 1994 Hormone Research Institute and The Gastrointestinal Research Laboratories, University of California, San Francisco, Calif.

Memberships

American Academy of Pediatrics, Specialty Fellow
American College of Surgeons, Fellow
American Diabetes Association
American Pediatric Surgical Association
American Society of Clinical Investigators
American Society of Cell Biology
American Surgical Association
British Association of Pediatric Surgeons
Pacific Association of Pediatric Surgeons
Plastic Surgery Research Council
Southern Surgical Association

Board Certifications

American Board of Surgery
American Board of Surgery with Special Qualification in Pediatric Surgery

Awards

2005 Benjamin R. Fisher Chair of Pediatric Surgery
2004-2008 Standing member CAD0 NIH Study Section
President, Society of University Surgeons
2004 American College of Surgeons Traveling Fellowship to Japan
Owen H. Wangensteen, MD, FACS, Faculty Research Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons Fellowship
Ross Laboratories Resident Award for paper entitled "Initiation of Gastrin Expression During Development of the Mouse Pancreas"
1992 First Prize, Resident Research Competition, University of California
1991 First Prize, Resident Research Competition, University of California
NIH GI Training Grant, University of California
Cum Laude, Harvard Medical School
Magna Cum Laude, Harvard College
John Harvard Scholar, Harvard College

Publications

Xiao X, Wiersch J, El-Gohary Y, Guo P, Prasadan K, Paredes J, Welsh C, Shiota C, Gittes GK. TGF-β Receptor Signaling Is Essential for Inflammation-Induced but Not β-Cell Workload-Induced β-Cell Proliferation. Diabetes 2013 Jan 15. [Epub ahead of print]
Shah S, Esni F, Jakub A, Paredes J, Lath N, Malek M, Potoka D, Prasadan K, Mastroberardino P, Shiota C, Guo P, Miller K, Hackam D, Burns R, Tulachan S, Gittes GK. Embryonic mouse blood flow and oxygen correlate with early pancreatic differentiation. Dev. Biol. 349:342-9, 2011.
Prasadan K, Koizumi M, Tulachan S, Shiota C, Lath N, Paredes J, Guo P, El-Gohary Y, Marcus M, Shah S, Gittes GK. The expression and function of glucose-dependence insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) in the embryonic mouse pancreas. Diabetes 60(2):548-54, 2011.
Tulachan S, Tei E, Hembree M, Crisera C, Prasadan K, Koizumi M, Shah S, Guo P, Bottinger E, Gittes GK. TGF-beta isoforms signaling regulates secondary transition and mesenchymal-induced endocrine development in the embryonic mouse pancreas. Dev. Biol. 305:508-521, 2007.
Yew KH, Hembree M, Prasadan K, Preuett B, McFall C, Benjes C, Crowley A, Sharp S, Tulachan S, Mehta S, Tei E, Gittes GK. Cross-talk between bone morphogenetic protein and transforming growth factor-beta signaling is essential for exendin-4 induced insulin-positive differentiation of AR42J cells. J Biol Chem 280:32209-17, 2005.

View Dr. Gittes' full list of publications from PubMed.

Biography Summary

Dr. Gittes came to Pittsburgh in 2005 from Children’s Mercy Hospital and the University of Missouri Kansas City School Hospital and the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine, where he held the Thomas M. Holder/Keith of Medicine, where he held the Thomas M. Holder/Keith W. Ashcraft Chair in Pediatric Surgical Research. He has long been actively involved in mentoring the next generation of scientific researchers.

Dr. Gittes was the 2005–06 president of the Society of University Surgeons and is professor of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.